Việt Nam News

The centre will cover about 11,600sq.m in Hà Nội’s Tây Hồ Tây (West Lake) urban area

HCM City has great potential for restoring thousands of villas, houses and buildings, many of them over 100 years old, according to the Architectural Research Centre at the city’s Department of Planning and Architecture.

The HCM City Department of Health has asked hospitals to not charge patients’ families for basic services.

Việt Nam needs to take drastic measures to promptly ease the complicity in illegal fishing and promote sustainable use of marine resources.

The HCM City-based Voluntary Youth Public Benefit Service Company (BESCO) will temporarily replace the staff in charge of management of public parking spaces and collection of road-use fees in districts 1, 5 and 10 until the city organises a bid to select a new technology solution provider.

Vietnamese people consume alcoholic beverages in excess but the country lacks specific regulations for prevention of its harmful effects, Deputy Health Minister Nguyễn Trường Sơn has said.

Authorities in the U Minh Thượng area in Kiên Giang Province are trying to bring back a famous endemic freshwater fish, cá đồng.

The city plans to call for investment in new materials that could replace sand used in some construction projects in response to an increase in illegal sand mining activities, according to Trần Vĩnh Tuyến, vice chairman of HCM City People’s Committee.

Surgeons at HCM City’s City International Hospital successfully performed a 15-hour cerebrovascular surgery on a 57-year-old woman recently to remove a grade-IV brain tumor.

Dozen of houses built illegally on land slated for a development project in the city of Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa Province, are being demolished, according to Vĩnh Thái Commune People’s Committee.

Hà Nội’s Transport Department has proposed the city People’s Committee to open a new bus route to Nội Bài International Airport from Hà Đông District.

The central province of Quảng Nam and Đà Nẵng have agreed to start dredging a 28km section of the Cổ Cò River to boost commercial water traffic between Hội An and Đà Nẵng.

Forest fires have occurred in Sơn La, Điện Biên, Lai Châu and Bà Rịa Vũng Tàu provinces in recent days

Hòa Bình People’s Court has sentenced one man to death on charges of drug trafficking.

Police in the northern province of Hải Dương on Sunday arrested two men from Hải Phòng for allegedly trading illegal explosive precursors and detonators.

Airlines, railway and bus stations will increase transport capacity to meet  travel demand during the Reunification Day and Labour Day holiday from April 27 to May 2.

African swine fever has been successfully controlled in Ngọc Thụy Ward, Long Biên District and Phú Thị Commune, Gia Lâm District, according to Hà Nội Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The HCM City Department of Transport wants to develop a commuter bus system to link to stations on Metro Line No.1, which is still under construction.